After years of planning and years of catastrophes, a building to house oyster hatchery operations on Grand Isle is under construction and expected to provide a big boost to Louisiana's oyster industry.
John Supan, hatchery director and research professor with Louisiana Sea Grant, says the $3 million hatchery building will be a vast improvement over the operations of the hatchery during the past 20 years.
This hatchery will be indoors, in contrast to the outdoor hatchery they've been using.
That outdoor hatchery came with a number of drawbacks, including having to depend on weather conditions, water temperature, water salinity and moving all the equipment to a safe location anytime there's a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico.
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